In this tutorial, we are learning how to create a new project. A project is just a BIRT term for a folder to help organize your data. A project will help you organize your report by categories or jobs or clients or whatever way you want to.

If you have the BIRT RCP Designer, you can skip this lesson because you can only use the default workspace provided by Eclipse. This lesson is for people have downloaded the full Eclipse BIRT package.

In your Eclipse IDE for BIRT, go to the Navigation Menu at the top of the screen and and clickFile. Then click:New.Then click:Project.

This opens a window calledNew Project. We then selectReport Projectand hitNext.

TheNew Projectwindow advances and asks for theProject Name. Go ahead and name this project, “MyProject“. (And remember, this going to just create a space for you to work, it’s not actually creating a report itself.)

When you have that done, hit the “Finish” button.

If you did it correctly, you should see a folder called “MyProject” in the Navigator pane. We needed a place to store the report we are about to create and now we have one.

The first task of How to Create a Simple Listing Report in BIRT is complete.

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